The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tiOn of Mrs. RoXalana Druse, under SEN
tence of death for the murder of her hus-
band, from December 20, the date fixed in
the sentence, till February %, 1887,
THE City Hall and Opera-house at
Cheboygan, Mich, were destroyed by fire
on the night Of the 22d. Loss, $4,000; no
insurance. The city Jail, located under
the City Hall, contained two prisoners,
one Of them an idiot named Doggy Dumas
Both were burned to death
THE steamer Rhynland, from Antwerp,
which arrived at New York on the 22d, re-
ports that on the 21st, while abreast OF
she passed the sea mon
ster reported by the steamer Thing
valla. 1t proved to be a dead whale
of gigantic size, floating about fifteen feet
out of water. 1t had apparently been dead
for a long time
DILLON and his associates appeared in
court at Loughrea on the 23d, and were
discharged.
WIN. WARNER, ofNewt0wn, Conn, killed
Mrs. Mary Lynch on the 23d, and then shot
himself
A VEIN Of gold is said to have been dis
covered near Spring Hill, Livingston
County, Mo.
ROBERT DEsPOsITO was shot and mortal
ly wounded at New Orleans on the22d by
James Cook, a notorious hoodlum. Des-
posito, it is alleged, has killed two men,
AT a meeting held recently at Sydney
New South Wales, 5000 was subscribed
for evicted tenants in Ireland.
H. p FORwOoD, former well-known
cotton merchant, Of Louisville, KY, has
been adjudged insane.
BRUCE, the burglar who several weeks
ago broke into the Church Of the Sacred
Heart at South Bend, Ind, and stole the
famous golden crowns, has been given
seven years in the penitentiqry.
BY the burning of their farmhouse, near
Saybrook, O., on the 23d, Caleb Russell,
his wife and a demented son lost their
lives.
TWELVE persons were injured in a rail
way accident on the Asheville q Spartan
burg road, near Asheville, n. c., on the
23d.
VIM SCHULTZ, a farmer, who resided
near Catawba, No, was kicked to death
on the 23d by vicious horse.
EX-GOVERNOR PIERCE of Dakota has &C
cepted the position of associate editor Of
the st, Paul Pioneer Press.
MRS. JESSE JOHNSON, wife of young
lawyer at Knoxville, Ia, threw herself
into the lake at Chicago on the 23d, and
was drowned.
The engineer of the British steamer
Suez, at New Orleans, and three China
men were fatally burned on the 23d by an
explosion of gas in the coal bunkers.
The eightieth anniversary of Emperor
1, hs
brated by an illumination at Berlin on
January !,
BURGLARS at Medina, o., got into the
county treasurer's Office on the night of
the ODD bound the marshal and tried to
blow open the safe, but failed
CLARA QUASI, a little two-year-Old child,
living at No. 1859 Third avenue, New York,
while playing on the floor Of her mothers
apartments on the 23l, picked up a screw
which she put in her mouth TO swallow
The screw lodged in the little ones larynx
and choked hertO death
THERE is much rejoicing among the
Gladstonians over the prospective break
up Of the Conservative nionist coalition
JOHN EDWARDS, senior partner of the
firm which began the publication of the
Ddily AdyertiSer at Portland, Me, more than
fifty years ago. and the Oldest printer in
Portland, died on the 23d, aged eighty-fve
years. He was born in Boston and went
to Portland in 1874
THE Pray Manufacturing Company of
Minneapolis, Mimi, assigned on the 23d to
Jabez b. Robinson. Liabilities, 100000;
assets, SIS, 900, The company has been in
financial difficulty for some time, and was
unable to reach satisfactory terms with
| its creditors.
/ The President has declined to interfere
/ in the case of James o. p. Burnside,
charged with defrauding the Government
while holding the position Of disbursing
clerk of the Post-Oftice Department. Be
! fore his trial Burnside was adiudged in
sane, and has since been confined in the
Government asylum for the insane.
! SOME ONE entered the stables of w. H.
Confer, proprietor of the American House,
| at Bloomfield, n. j., on the 23d and cut a
| large piece of flesh three inches in depth
from the right foreleg of the colt Frank
c., valued at $500.
THE Russian Government has discov
cred the existence of an extensive Nihilist
organization, the members of which arc
/ pIluClpduN NoIhutu III INC large factories
in St Petersburg, Moscow and vladimir
Many members Of the organization have
been arrested.
Hon. JoUN A. LOGAN died at his home il
Washington on the afternoon of the 10Th
in his siXty-irst year.
! W. W. CORCoRAN, Washington's well
known philanthropist, was eighty-eigh
years old on the 9th.
BECAUSE a young man Rugged youns
lady in church in Brooklyn, N. Y, the peo
pie say he is insane. Perhaps he Isl
THAMES to the clews obtained from tn,
Jim Cummings" letters, the perpetrator!
and accessories in the Frisco express rob
berry have been captured, and, it is report
ed large amount of the stolen money hal
been recovered.
( TnE Clifton House at Marquette, Mich.
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
JUDGE HOLMAN, of Indiana, will enter
the race for the United States Senatorshi1
from that State
SARAH Victor, life prisoner in the Ohio
penitentiary for poisoning her brother, re
ceived the Christmas gift of a pardo,
from the Govepor.
! UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS spen
Christmas with the Baroness Burdette
COutts.